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October 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:48 PM

BBC iPlayer in the Mesh

As you may have seen in David Treadwell’s piece on stage today at PDC , Anthony Rose, Head of Digital at BBC Future Media and Technology, presented a project we’ve been working on with the BBC over the past couple of months and that has kept me heads
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:07 AM

Links on Azure

The internet is a-buzzing with Azure information. Here is a round-up of some useful links: Steve Clayton’s Grab Bag of papers and facts Jose Fajardo’s post (video and link to David Chappell whitepaper) TechCrunch video with Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Amitabh
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Monday, October 27, 2008 5:09 PM

Windows Azure

Just announced at the keynote ( watch it live at microsoftpdc.com ): Windows Azure
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Monday, October 27, 2008 10:28 AM

.NET goes wavey…

This is the fancy new .NET logo that will be used at PDC . The old one has been kicking around since about 2000 so it was probably time for a refresh – and it seems in keeping with all of the shiny Silverlight and Mesh logos that have been appearing recently
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:47 AM

Audience

Loving this art installation exploring the characteristics of an audience and the emotions involved. Check out this video: Royal Opera House: Audience. from rAndom International on Vimeo . As an AI enthusiast (supposedly pro…) I’m always surprised by
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Monday, October 20, 2008 9:41 AM

Microsoft Web Platform Beta

There has been a little noise about the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) on a few blogs in the past week or so – not least from Hanselman and Phil Haack . I’m pleased to see the challenge of kitting out a machine with all of “the good stuff” is being tackled
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:47 AM

Silverlight 2 Released

In the unlikely event that your only connection with the internet was this blog, I thought it best to mention that Silverlight 2 is now released. For the best information, have a a look at blog posts by Tims , Scottgu , and Hanselman . It’s an exciting
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:02 PM

National Rail Enquiries Concept

Mark B has also just finished some prototyping work recently but is also able to give some details on what he’s been up to here . I saw the applicaton just after it was finished and it was a smart, practical use of both Virtual Earth and Silverlight .
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:30 PM

Combining IE8 Accelerators and Popfly

One of my favourite Popfly blocks is the “Whack-A-Mole” block for no other reason than because it’s fun and entirely pointless. JamesO suggested it might be a cool idea to combine a bit of Whack-A-Mole with an IE8 accelerator: a user can highlight a bit
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:15 PM

role.Change()

In other news, this particular lab session represents the last chunk of work I’ll be completing as an ‘Architect Evangelist’ at Microsoft as I’m now moving into the role of ‘Evangelism Lead’ within DPE in the UK (so same overall team). What does that
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:30 AM

lab.Complete()

Wow. It’s amazing how much time that the lab can suck up. I just looked at my blog and saw my last post was 23rd September. That exercise is coming to some kind of completion at the moment. Actually that’s not true as because it is connected to PDC then
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